![]() Ruskin best expressed what he didn't do for Effie: "You cannot hammer a girl into anything. What's boring about these farcical Freudian touches is that they're not even funny or fleshed out, and Thompson gives Ruskin little chance to show the verbal gifts that shot him to the forefront of Victorian art and architecture critics. While mom takes John immediately to a bath when he arrives with his new bride, the bride is left to pass pleasantries with dad as she is clueless yet about how mom will co-opt her every step of the short marriage. ![]() As depicted here, Ruskin is a mama's boy coddled by both parents, actually shielded from social interaction so he can write unimpeded. In real life, Ruskin was 29 years old when he married Effie, and Wise is 49, adding another layer of intergenerational distance not even historically accurate. Or maybe she was too busy miscasting Ruskin played by her husband, Greg Wise. The crux of the conflict is that Ruskin never consummated the marriage John Everett Millais, the pre-Raphaelite painter plays too little a part in this adaptation and Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning, looking innocently pre-Raphaelite) is so underwritten as to make me question what such a wit as Thompson was thinking. Neither reason is satisfied, nor in fact are dynamic people barely present in this boring biopic. "When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." John Ruskin Two reasons compelled me to see Effie Gray, the 19th century period piece about the failed marriage of famed art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride, Effie Gray: Emma Thompson wrote it and co-stars John Ruskin is a hero of mine.
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